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Only one speech was made, an impassioned torrent of gratitude by Monsieur Hanotaux directed at our distinguished host, an equally impassioned "Friend of France."
The views of the British Government upon this matter were plainly stated in Parliament by Sir Edward Grey some years ago during the Administration of the Earl of Rosebery, and were formally communicated to the French Government at the time. Her Majesty's present Government entirely adhere to the language that was on this occasion employed by their predecessors." To this M. Hanotaux replied:
For Hanotaux, Richelieu is 'the true founder of our colonial empire, and La Roncière adds: 'Madagascar, Senegal, Guiana, the Antilles, Acadia, and Canada this, to be exact, was the colonial empire for which we were indebted to Richelieu. Regarding his breadth of outlook there can be no doubt, and in his Memoirs he left the oft-quoted phrase: 'No realm is so well situated as France to be mistress of the seas or so rich in all things needful. Desiring to strengthen maritime commerce and to hold distant possessions, he became convinced that the English and the Dutch had adopted the right policy.
After giving this brusque but useful warning of the importance which France attached to the Upper Nile, M. Berthelot quitted office, and M. Bourgeois, the Prime Minister, took the portfolio for foreign affairs. He pushed on the Marchand expedition; so also did his successor, M. Hanotaux, in the Méline Cabinet which speedily supervened.
Sir Edmund Monson enclosed in the despatch a copy of a note he had addressed to M. Hanotaux, at that period French Minister of Foreign Affairs, as follows: "The other point to which it is necessary to advert is the proposed recognition of the French claim to the northern and eastern shores of Lake Chad.
"We have all sinned, your people as well as mine, the English, the French, the Germans, all, all of us, but Germany has sinned most." When M. Hanotaux spoke these words with a Hebraic fervor of conviction, I did not have to be told what he meant.
Those whom he left behind have reason to be well satisfied with him; for, though he died out of France, his name will not therefor be any less glorious to posterity. Gabriel Hanotaux, member of the French Academy, is the author of the most authoritative work on the life and times of Richelieu.
Has not the need for this future union been affirmed by the most conflicting voices: by William II, who spoke of the "United States of Europe"; by Hanotaux, with his "European Confederation"; by Ostwald, and Haeckel of lamentable memory, with their "Society of States"? Each one, doubtless, worked for his own saint; but all these saints served the same master!...
Gabriel Hanotaux, "La Crise méditerranéenne et l'Islam," Revue Hebdomadaire, April 13, 1912. Quoted from A. Vambéry, "Die türkische Katastrophe und die Islamwelt," Deutsche Revue, July, 1913. Shah Mohammed Naimatullah, "Recent Turkish Events and Moslem India," Asiatic Review, October, 1913. Quoted by F. Farjanel, "Le Japon et l'Islam," Revue du Monde musulman, November, 1906. Farjanel, supra.
The grinding of the mill may be heart-breakingly slow, but the grist is as sure as life itself. Similarly, the statesman Hanotaux has expressed "The Moral Victory": "It is the noblest, the highest of causes which has been submitted to the arbitrament of arms. Its grandeur justifies the terrible extent of the drama and the immense sacrifices it imposes.
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